Cameroon: The Constitutional Court received petitions from three opposition candidates demanding the nullification of the Oct. 7 presidential poll. (Xinhua)

South Sudan: The UN Security Council approved a final extension of its peacekeeping mission in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan. (AFP)

Uganda: At least 31 people were killed when a floodwaters triggered by a landslide swept debris through a town, destroying homes and burying livestock. (Reuters)

AMERICAS

Brazil: Presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro said that if elected he would name banker Paulo Guedes as economy minister to oversee a “super ministry” combining the current finance, planning and development portfolios. (Reuters)

Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration of seeking to assassinate him, as relations deteriorate between the ideologically opposed nations. (Reuters)

ASIA

Region: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said North Korea understands the need to give up its existing nuclear weapons to achieve complete denuclearization and says it will do so. (Yonhap)

China: The government accused the US of seeking to “disturb” its security policies after a US congressional report said Beijing’s mass internment of Muslim minorities may constitute “crimes against humanity”. (AFP)

Pakistan: A high court judge who publicly accused the country’s powerful intelligence service of manipulating judicial decisions to influence the last general election was removed from his post. (AFP)

EUROPE

Region: German authorities have approved the extradition of the suspect in the rape and murder of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova. (Reuters)

Turkey: The trial of an American pastor at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between the government and the United States resumed in Izmir. (AFP)

MIDDLE EAST

Region: The Turkish president suggested that Turkey’s military could soon launch a new operation across the border into northern Syria, in zones held by Syrian Kurdish fighters. (AP)

Saudi Arabia: Media companies are pulling out of a Saudi investment conference because of growing outrage over the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist in Turkey. (Reuters)

Syria: Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State group said they hold around 900 of the organisation’s foreign jihadists prisoner, a sharp increase from the previous figure. (AFP)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Technology: A Russian Soyuz rocket launch failed with the two astronauts onboard, including an American, making an emergency landing and emerging unharmed. (NYT)